Re: Hate Thread
SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE GAMER!
Yeeah, my health isn't really 'top notch' at the moment, but who cares right? So long as I live for the now and enjoy what I'm doing I don't care when I die, even if it will be by my own negligence. Though there are a couple of reasons why I want to get in shape now, the main one is to get a white Kimblee-esque suit tailored, complete with white fedora and scarf-thingy. Sure, its gonna cost quite a bit I'd imagine, but I reckon I'll look spiffy in it.
Never underestimate the power of a good suit. Good luck, Oni. Part of the reason I want to shed a few pounds is so I look good in cosplay pictures *laughs* I'm vain and love having my picture taken, but damn, I'm pudgy. (side note: I've lost about 10 pounds exercising. I'm happy.)
So, hate. Yeah. I hate when my friend gets hypocritical about our IM response times while we're gaming. It's perfectly fine for her to start a raid and not tell me and not respond to me for nearly an hour. It's pefectly fine for her to not feel well and go lie down without giving me warning that she's doing so. It's perfectly fine for her to not respond to me for 15 minutes. However if I'm reading and taking a while to respond. Or writing on the forum and taking a while to respond. Or having nodded off at the keyboard because I only got 3 hours of sleep the night previous. Or eating, because I haven't had food since 6 at night and it's now 2am and I needed to go make a sammich or be sick, I'm drawing out the game and making it hard to focus.
We do this every night. Every single night. We play D&D in IMs and I'm usually the DM, which means I'm the one coming up with ideas. I *need* to multitask or I go bonkers but because I'm not paying attention to *her* and not responding within the two freaking minutes that she seems to be capable of, I'm making it hard to focus. Since I'm often coming up with this stuff on the fly, I often have to take time to write scenes out, look stuff up, figure out what the NPCs are going to do next. She's playing. I'm running. And she doesn't understand why we don't run more than one game at a time any more. It's because I have other things that I want to be doing. Things that are distracting and fun and I get to *play* rather than be saddled with the task of figuring out what happens next all the time. Which, if I try to explain this, usually starts the insecure rant of "Is it my characters? Have I made something you can't come up with ideas for? I try to help but I want to be surprised rather than tell you what I want to happen..." I guarantee that sometime within the next (What day is it now? 10th?) week and a half, she and I are going to get into the same fight we always get into every month about the game. And we'll hash over the same stuff and we'll get into it at 5 in the morning, probably when I have to be up for work in four hours but I don't want to leave the situation unresolved, even though that's usually how it ends up and we wind up signing on the next night like nothing out of the ordinary happens and we get right back to gaming once one of us gets the nerve up to IM the other and say "so, wanna play?"
A'ite, sorry about that. I've just been dealing with the pause issue since she's been sick (which was pretty much the entirety of December and getting on to now.) and I'm probably PMSing which is why it's ticking me off more than usual and I just needed to get it out.